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We study downsampling of optical frequency combs by way of pulse gating to enable efficient spectral broadening and f-2f interferometry. We downsample a 250 MHz...
Robert F. Sekerka, William J. Boettinger, Geoffrey B. McFadden
We examine the possibility that hillock growth of Sn coatings on Cu substrates is related to grain boundary fluxes caused by biaxial compressive stresses. We...
Distributed mesh sensor networks provide cost-effective communications for deployment in various smart grid domains, such as home area networks (HAN)...
Diamond sensors are evaluated as incident beam monitors for X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy experiments. These single crystal devices pose a challenge for an...
Graphical representations are presented for variation along the steepest-descent internal-rotation path in methanol of the normal mode frequencies and their...
Stephen E. Stein, Paul A. Rudnick, Scott J. Walmsley, Qian Dong, Alexey I. Nesvizhskii, Yuxue Liang
Trypsin is an endoprotease commonly used for sample preparation in proteomics experiments. Importantly, protein digestion is dependent on multiple factors...
Nicholas James Clark, Hailiang Zhang, Susan T. Krueger, Hyo Jin Lee, Randy R. Ketchem, Bruce Kerwin, Sekhar R. Kanapuram, Michael J. Treuheit, Arnold McAuley, Joseph E. Curtis
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) contain hinge-like regions of structural flexibility that enable the mobility of globular domains that have direct effect on...
A. Alberca, N. M. Nemes, F. J. Mompean, Titusz Feher, Ferenc Simon, J. Tornos, C. Leon, C. Munuera, Brian Kirby, M. R. Fitzsimmons, A. Hernando, J. Santamaria, M. Garcia-Hernandez
The magnetism of La 0.7Ca 0.3MnO 3 (LCMO) expitaxial thin films grown SrTi 3 (STO)and BaTiO 3 (BTO) substrates is studied using Polarized Neutron Reflectometry...
Casey Charvet, Aicha Saadane, Meiyao M. Wang, Robert Salomon, Henri Brunengraber, Christine Curcio, Illarion Turko, Irina Pikuleva
The benefits of antioxidant therapy for treating age-related macular degeneration, a devastating retinal disease, are limited. Perhaps species other than...
P. Jonsson, P. Bengtsson, J. Ekman, S. Gustafsson, L. B. Karlsson, G. Gaigalas, D. Kato, Charlotte F. Fischer, I. Murakami, H. A. Sakaue, H. Hara, T. Watanabe, N. Nakamura, N. Yamamoto
Energies, E1, M1, E2, M2 transition rates, oscillator strengths, and lifetimes from relativistic configuration interaction calculations are reported for the...
Kyung Jin Lee, Mark D. Stiles, Hyun-Woo Lee, Jung-Hwan Moon, Kyoung-Whan Kim, Seo--Won Lee
A spin-polarized current transfers its spin-angular momentum to a local magnetization, exciting various types of current-induced magnetization dynamics. So far...
Charlotte F. Fischer, S. Verdebout, Michel Godefroid, P. Rynkun, P. Jonsson, G. Gaigalas
No lines have been observed for transitions between the doublet and quartet levels of B i. Consequently,energy levels based on observation for the latter are...
How does one inspect terabyte-sized 3D images visually from multiple viewpoints? The current solutions are limited to gigabyte-sized images using specialized...
Kevin M. Kiesler, Michael D. Coble, Thomas Hall, Peter Vallone
A set of 711 samples from four U.S. population groups was analyzed using a novel mass spectrometry based method for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) base composition...
Riaz Ahmad, John K. Brennan, Kevin A. Frankel, Jonathan D. Moore, Joshua D. Moore, Raymond D. Mountain, Richard B. Ross, Vincent K. Shen, Nathan E. Schultz, Daniel Siderius, Kenneth D. Smith, Matthias Thommes
The primary goal of the seventy industrial fluid properties simulation challenge was to test the ability of molecular simulation methods to predict the...
We use atomistic tight-binding theory with a configuration interaction description of Coulomb and exchange effects to describe excitons in quantum dots in a...
Catherine A. Remley, Saeed Farsi, Bart Nauwelaers, Dominique Schreurs
A dithering technique based on ensemble averaging of waveforms is proposed. In the proposed method, instead of performing several measurements with different...
J.H. Roh, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, T. E. Hogan, C. M. Roland
The nature of the interactions of polymers at the surface of nanoparticles is crucial to understanding the dynamics and their effect on the mechanical...
Igor de la Varga, Robert Spragg, Carmelo di Bella, Javier Castro, Dale P. Bentz, Jason Weiss
The transport of fluid and ions in concrete mixtures is central to many aspects of concrete deterioration. As a result, transport properties are frequently...
The thermal conductivity and viscosity are known to exhibit an enhancement in fluids due to critical fluctuations. We have reviewed procedures proposed in the...
BACKGROUND: Graphene layers are potential candidates in a large number of applications due to their novel properties. However, little is known about their...
Albert Davydov, Jian Shi, Alexander Kvit, Sergiy Krylyuk, Xudong Wang
Understanding the evolution of amorphous and crystalline phases during atomic layer deposition (ALD) is essential for creating high quality dielectrics...
The magnetic properties of well-drained, near-neutral modern soils demonstrate strong relationships with mean annual precipitation MAP, averaged over the last...
The current practice in the analysis of key comparison data is discussed and critically assessed. We argue that there is an ambiguity in the definition and...
Wyatt N. Vreeland, Abhay U. Andar, Renee R. Hood, Don L. DeVoe, Peter W. Swaan
Purpose: This study investigates the cellular uptake and trafficking of liposomes in Caco-2 cells, using vesicles with distinct average diameters ranging from...
Vladimir P. Oleshko, Elissa H. Williams, Albert Davydov, Sergiy Krylyuk, Abhishek Motayed, Dmitry A. Ruzmetov, Thomas F. Lam, Henri J. Lezec, Albert A. Talin
Functionalized individual semiconductor nanowires (SNWs) and 3D SNW arrays attract a continuously growing interest for applications in optoelectronics, sensing...
Yoshihiro Ohno, Maria E. Nadal, Kenneth L. Eckerle, E. A. Early
This is an official report from Consultative Committee of Photometry and Radiometry (CCPR) on the Key Comparison CCPR-K5 spectral diffuse reflectance, conducted...
We introduce a family of complex modulation signals that are generated as patterns over the real and imaginary plane for characterization of coherent optical...